From footwear product development manager to footwear designer
20 of the 25 essential skills of a footwear designer are already essential for a footwear product development manager — about 80% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 20
- skills carry over
- 5
- would be new
- 80%
- of the target job covered
- 25
- essential skills of a footwear designer
What a footwear designer does
Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
What carries over
20 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create patterns for footwear
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- develop footwear collection
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear components
- footwear creation process
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- implement footwear marketing plan
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- perform market research in footwear
- perform pattern grading
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- use communication techniques
- use IT tools
- work in textile manufacturing teams
What would be new
5 skillsEssential for a footwear designer and not for a footwear product development manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from footwear product development manager
2 roles- footwear product developer25 skills in common
- leather goods product development manager16 skills in common
← footwear product development managerfootwear designer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a footwear designer?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.